This past weekend we went to a Classic Car Auction. My father-in-law has a little collection and he was selling a few of them at the auction so my husband went to help and I went for something to do with the girls. Mia loves car shows so she fits right in. There were beautiful cars going through for sale and for a lot of money. One corvette went for $190,000...that's what I paid for my house!
Towards the end of the day the Pink Slips, which is a ladies car club, were auctioning off a Hummer electric kids car for a young family with an 18 month old daughter. Little Dakota started having seizures at just 2 weeks old and was diagnosed with a rare brain inflammation caused by a virus. Recently tests showed that this virus had destroyed 80% of her brain function. Doctors say she will likely never walk or talk. The family moved closer to Sick Kids where they spend a lot of time and obviously have years and years of therapy ahead for her, wheelchairs, braces to help her move around and they will need a wheelchair accessible van.
My husband wanted to stay and watch the kids car get auctioned off, he thought it would be quite exciting to watch all these people bid and raise a lot of money for this family. Our kids were tired so I went out to the car to get them loaded in. When he came to the van what he told me was surprising. The kids car went up for auction, the family and the little girl were even there on stage. The auctioneer started and the crowd was silent.....no one was bidding. These were people who were spending thousands of dollars on cars but not one could bid for this family? It wasn't even about the little electric car it was about this family standing in front of everyone who need help. So my husband started bidding and another guy got into it so they bid back and forth and we are now the owners of kids electric car :)
My husband was so happy that we could help, but sad at the same time that all those people did nothing. God has blessed our business and we are blessed with 2 healthy little girls so how could we not help. I just had to picture ourselves in their position and life can change so quickly if someone in your family gets sick, and as we are blessed with OHIP it certainly doesn't cover everything.
God calls on us to help others around us who are in need without question and without expecting anything in return. We don't need the little electric car, that's not why we did it, and we are going to find a way to pay it forward and use it to bless someone else.
The Pink Slips are a group of great women who use their car club to raise money for lots of families in need, if you want to learn more about them and baby Dakota go to http://www.pinkslipscarclub.com/2012/charity.php
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